Windows 10System became very slow and laggy after restart, disk usage 100% with average response time 9198 ms

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I was using my computer like normal and everything was fine, couldn't connect to a friend's WiFi so I restarted my computer. It took over 30 minutes to boot back up, with half that time being on my desktop loading applications. Everything that I tried to click was being very slow. I Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up task manager and that took 5 minutes to pull up. Saw that disk usage was at 100%, but the programs that were running fluctuated in percentage being used by Win 10. The main culprits right now are Service Host: Local Service, Service Host: Local System, Microsoft Software Protection something, Google Chrome (even though I don't have it open), settings, System etc. These are never at the same time, 3 or 4 fluctuate very rapidly (changes every second) under my disk column.

I've tried a lot of things suggested from Google, but I haven't found a thread where the person's computer has been super slow, just slow (5 minutes long) boot up times. My problem surpasses the boot up.

I turned off SuperSearch, Background Intelligent Transfer Service, I even tried reseting my computer. It went through a 2 hour process, only to turn on and say that something went wrong and my PC wasn't reset. I restarted my computer a couple of times but it still goes through the same long boot up process.

I'm currently trying to expand my virtual memory, but EVERY click I do takes minutes to load. The currently allocated memory is already at 8192 MB, so I don't think that is the problem. Now it's asking me to restart my computer, which I'm afraid to do because I know it'll take 30+ minutes to become SLIGHTLY functional again.

I'm very frustrated, I've been at it since yesterday afternoon and nothing has changed, I've got a mountain of schoolwork to get done and I'm really hoping someone will help me find a solution.

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Could mean your hard drive is failing,
right click on the start button and Open a cmpd prompt, Run chkdsk /F (F= Check disk for errors)
if it finds any errors you would be wise to backup all your needed/important files asap, as the drive could fail at any time and you would loose all data.

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Could mean your hard drive is failing,
right click on the start button and Open a cmpd prompt, Run chkdsk /F (F= Check disk for errors)
if it finds any errors you would be wise to backup all your needed/important files asap, as the drive could fail at any time and you would loose all data.

Is there any way to find out if that's exactly what the problem is? I wouldn't want to buy one and replace and not have it fix the problem.

On a similar note, is it worth replacing just the hard disk on a computer that old? Should I just look for a new one? The specs are Samsung NP550P5C-T01US. 8 GBs of ram, Intel i7-3610QM CPU @2.30 Ghz 2.30 Ghz, 64 bit system

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Specs look fine but it depends how critical your data is. I would get your data off that drive or you could loose it.
Then replace the drive with a new sold state drive (SSD) the largest you can afford. That should make it very responsive.
There are programs you could try to fix the drive but as bochane said you could loose the drive and data.

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Specs look fine but it depends how critical your data is. I would get your data off that drive or you could loose it.
Then replace the drive with a new sold state drive (SSD) the largest you can afford. That should make it very responsive.
There are programs you could try to fix the drive but as bochane said you could loose the drive and data.

Crucial has a very good name in the SSD market as well and they perform great, I have 2 x Crucial MX200 500gb SSD's running together (Raid 0) in my main desktop PC and they have never missed a beat.

And all the tools you need to change the drives over is a small cross-head screwdriver.

Do you have access to another PC/laptop/usb thumb drive or portable hard drive ? you will need one to get your files off the old HDD. If you need them that is.
If you do download a (free) copy of Macrium Reflect backup software Macrium Reflect Free you can clone the entire disk onto the SSD.
If you don't need any files saving you can just swap out the drives and install a fresh copy of windows 10. by following these instructions. ....Windows 10
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